Research Partnership Awards

Unlike the HHC's long-established Research
Grants which help support juniors and seniors pursuing specific
research or scholarly activities, Research Partnership Grants are intended
to encourage freshmen and sophomores to become involved in research or
scholarly activities in disciplines that evoke their interest.

Freshmen and sophomores who apply for these awards must have 3.4
GPAs overall to qualify for consideration.

Activities considered appropriate for these awards include:

serving as a research assistant for a humanities professor

working in a science laboratory in some capacity

helping a social sciences professor collect data

Ultimately, what an applicant does should be determined by conversations
between the applicant and the professor for whom s/he will be working.
Research Partnership Grant awardees should work approximately 6 to 10
hours weekly doing a semester. (Summer activities are flexible.) The goal
of the program is to make freshmen and sophomore students aware of some
important aspects of the research and/or scholarly activities professors
pursue, and to help prepare students for more advanced research and
scholarly activities as they pursue a major.

DeadlinesFall: 5 p.m. on the first Friday in
OctoberSpring: 5 p.m. on
the first Friday in February
Summer: 5 p.m. on the
Friday before
Spring Break.

These awards are for freshmen and sophomore students. Awards will be
for up to $1000. Normal classwork associated with research and/or
scholarly activities does not qualify for this grant. A student may only
receive this grant once. Awards will be made on a competitive basis. A
student's record, the intended activities, and the recommendation of
the mentor will help guide the grant committee's decisions.

Upon
completion of the period for which a student has received this grant, s/he
must write a short essay describing what s/he learned about the research
and/or scholarly activities in the mentor's discipline.

To apply for a Research Partnership Grant, obtain an application
here.

Please Note: All applicants must attach an unofficial
IUB transcript
to this application.

**NOTE**: If you filed the FAFSA and are receiving financial aid (for example: Direct Loans, Pell Promise grants, 21st Century Scholars Covenant),
and you receive one of the Hutton Honors College's grants for scholarships, your award from the Hutton Honors College may not be paid-out in
the form of cash funds (i.e., as money paid into your Bursar account), but instead, may be used by IU's Office of Student Financial Assistance
(OSFA) to reduce your student/parent loan burden or reduce your federal/state grant by the amount awarded to you by the HHC. To learn how your HHC
award may impact your financial aid, please contact OSFA at scu@indiana.edu.